A recent article highlights the growing "empathy gap" caused by outsourcing emotional tasks to AI. The World Economic Forum ranks empathy among the core skills employers value most, yet one in three employees has used AI to write a sensitive workplace email, and people send around 342 million messages a week to AI about relationships and feelings. When leaders lean heavily on AI writing, the share of employees who see their leaders as sincere falls from 83% to 40%. The article identifies three potential solutions: designating a chief empathy officer, pairing AI training with empathy training, and producing an empathy score for every AI product an organization adopts. It warns that each time empathy is outsourced, that "muscle" weakens, leaving a skills gap.